Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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to help Mikayla when he heard Kylie weakly

bleeding forehead and the red marks on her neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who was standing

hurriedly fetched the

in sitting down and then walked over to

tugged at her arm. “Get

her arm, it was as if he were dragging a lifeless doll.

a bit

didn’t you come up here to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing

his voice. Her eyes began

a sense of relief.

with Kylie after the divorce?” Mikayla

voice was hoarse, and her tone betrayed

furrowed brows tightened

life over

first

trying to

moment, carrying the

Mikayla stand up, but she coldly pushed

back to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away without casting a backward

chase after Mikayla to find out what had happened, but at

let out a stifled groan of

Mikayla was the one responsible for the disturbance,

to a complete stop. “Shall we go to the hospital?”

face, Kylie shook her head. “I’m

fine? Another inch deeper, and it would have needed

“Who was that person just now? Why did she come

“She might have misunderstood

kind. You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her. I think we should call the police and

woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for

to leave, but she could tell it wasn’t

If you need someone to look after you

Jerome asked Kylie, “What just happened? Why did Mikayla attack